---
title: "Basic Archive"
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slug: "basic-archive"
url: "http://localhost/article/basic-archive/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/basic-archive.md"
published_at: "2026-02-14T14:08:27+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-02-14T14:08:28+00:00"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "ARCHIVE, as everyone knows, is a very powerful database. Unfortunately, it is only as powerful as you are a programmer. Anyone con create a mailing list file, or a customer file or a stock file. It is the ability to write procedures which utilize the information in the records that makes ARCHIVE one of the…"
category:
  - name: "QL Report"
    slug: "ql-report"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/ql-report/"
post_tag:
  - name: "QL"
    slug: "ql"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ql/"
  - name: "Type-in program"
    slug: "type-in-program"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/type-in-program/"
model:
  - name: "Sinclair QL"
    slug: "sinclair-ql"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/sinclair-ql/"
publication_r:
  id: 39073
  title: "QL Report"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/ql-report/"
volume: "3"
issue: "10"
issues_articles:
  - id: 39095
    title: "QL Report v3 n10"
    type: "issue"
    url: "http://localhost/issue/ql-report-v3-n10/"
pages: "1-2"
pubdate: "October 15, 1987"
archive_link: false
---

# Basic Archive

ARCHIVE, as everyone knows, is a very powerful database. Unfortunately, it is only as powerful as you are a programmer. Anyone con create a mailing list file, or a customer file or a stock file. It is the ability to write procedures which utilize the information in the records that makes ARCHIVE one of the better databases on any computer.